Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Phillips of the University of California, whose African Expedition is financing Dr. Broom, described Swartkrans Man as "a million-dollar discovery, what we were dreaming about for 14 months in Africa." The discovery of Swartkrans Man should buttress the theory, not previously accepted by all paleontologists, that nature experimented, something over a million years ago, with big, lumbering men* before settling finally on the present model...
...fear of offending was such that nobody was bold enough to press the Argentine delegation for a report on, say, freedom of the press in Buenos Aires. It was not the thing to ask the representative from South Africa for a summation of the state of racial tolerance in the Transvaal, or to cross-question Egyptians on the rule of law and the state of human rights in their country "without distinction, of race, sex, language or religion." Even the Americans, constantly pressing for bold action, remained diffident. "We can't afford to give the impression that...
Last week, Communist Kahn's campaign paid off: he became the first Communist ever elected to South Africa's Parliament, and his Negro electorate turned out energetically to give him an impressive majority (Kahn polled 3,780 votes; his nearest contender...
...formula is just as secret now as it always has been. Over the years knowledge, theories, the results of experiments brought by travelers to the Indies, to far off China, Australia, Europe and Africa-and just across Boston's Charles River-all this he has added to his own native wisdom ... But he has never mixed ... in his formula...
...Mutual Accord. In 1945, pleading ill health, she left Persia for a visit to Egypt. She never came back. Mohamed Reza blamed her brother Farouk for influencing her against him. Meanwhile, the young Shah's father, tough old self-made Reza Shah Pahlevi, died in exile in South Africa and Mohamed Reza made arrangements to bring his body back to Persia. The body was duly shipped via Cairo, where the Egyptians sidetracked it into a small local mosque. Ever since then Egyptians and Persians have been dickering over a suitable divorce settlement for Fawzia. "No settlement, no body...